Charles Alexander London Research Paper

Author to Literature: Charles Alexander London The euphoria felt from travelling the world, is unsurpassable. Wanderlust filled people, venture out on a journey across the world in order to experience new things, meet new people, and Alexander London was one of these people. Thanks to London’s adventurous and active lifestyle, he has the potential to write a multitude of accurate events through his characters and descriptions. In fact, Alex London’s life plays a huge role in the creation of this book. London has met people, and has reflected their personalities onto his characters, he places his characters into situations that he himself has been in or associated with, and he provides his story with characters from all sorts of backgrounds similar to his own unique ethnic background. Across his travels, London has had a multitude of opportunities to meet people of a variety of personalities. On one trip to the city of Goma, in the Congo, London says he met a group of child soldiers, “the boys had fought in brutal militias... but they were at this center working to rebuild their lives. They were normal teens and tweens in many ways--playing, fidgeting, telling dirty jokes, asking curious questions” (Shoemaker, “Alex London's proxy: dispatches from the front”). He notes that even having grown …show more content…
There’s a surreal resemblance between the reader and the characters, and it is an easy task to find a character to relate to. Thanks to London’s lifestyle and experiences, he has been given the opportunity to write something unique and creative. By mirroring the personalities of the people he has met, and the relationships between them, as well as expanding upon the contrasting backgrounds of them all help bring to life the characters and the uncanny accuracy of the scenes in his story, London creates a profound story perfect for its intended